 DARREN SNYDER | FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2015 When attending superannuation industry forums as a media man there are a couple of moments I always enjoy - personal stories and practical examples. Not every story or example will make the news cycle but something did strike me recently that eventually ... Read more  ALEX DUNNIN | THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014 ... at all. The two superannuation leaders I'm referring to are Sam Sicilia, chief investment officer at the HOSTPLUS industry fund, and Craig Meller, chief executive of AMP. HOSTPLUS and AMP are obviously fundamentally different organisations and being ... Read more ALEX DUNNIN | WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2014 ... susceptible are jobs to computerisation? Their shocking conclusion is that high value high skill intellectual service industry jobs may be just as susceptible to automation and obsolescence as low value industrial jobs were (the ones we no longer have). ... Read more ALEX DUNNIN | WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2013 ... self-funded and be operating with no or minimal cross-subsidy from the members who don't select them. But with some major industry funds reporting less than a few hundred members rolling out each year to SMSFs, it begs the question why SMSFs are causing ... Read more ALEX DUNNIN | TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2013 ... are continuing to drift down, from 1.32% in 2007 to 1.23% this year. But the bad news - at least for the superannuation industry - is that superannuation is overall getting cheaper not because prices are dropping but because more consumers are voting ... Read more JAMES FERNYHOUGH | SUNDAY, 4 AUG 2013 ... world's largest fund manager BlackRock, the world's sixth largest pension fund CalPERS, and Australia's largest industry super fund AustralianSuper. Commonwealth Bank, AMP and Westpac all signed, as did UniSuper, HESTA and Cbus. At the same ... Read more JAMES FERNYHOUGH | SUNDAY, 4 AUG 2013 ... staff. Now, on the eve of her departure in early 2015, it has $29 billion and 120 staff. It has remained the premier industry fund for the health and community services sector, built a recognisable and respected brand, and delivered consistently strong ... Read more JAMES FERNYHOUGH | TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2013 ... and attention that we [Challenger] do. It's also about having the capital. The fact is the DC model and the industry fund model is one that really doesn't have shareholder capital backing it. And to make concrete promises in retirement, you need ... Read more CLAIRE KEATING | MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013 ... (EU) and is designed to stimulate debate and serve as a catalyst to drive positive change in the long-term investment industry in the EU. Read more ALEX DUNNIN | WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012 ... that never made their case on the fees they charged. But yet these customers didn't want to join a union aligned industry fund either, leaving a SMSF as their only option. Similarly when we are presented with other claims like when a SMSF advocate recently ... Read more |
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